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BJP is down but not out,
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FIR wIthdRawn agaInst RbI’s ex-chIeF explaIns hint Assembly elections
elItes but moot what modI I ‘achIeved
questIon RemaIns the best’
Finally the police in Raghuram Rajan praises
Muzaffarpur in Bihar reforms in the agriculture The poll results of Haryana and Maharashtra suggest that the micro issues have played a
have done well to close a sector like crop insurance, huge role in the party’s below-par performance in both states, reports rakesh rocky
sedition case against 49 doing away with
intellectuals for sending middlemen and Director
an open letter to the Benefit Transfer initiated
PM on the need to stop by Modi government,
hate crimes, writes reports Tehelka Bureau
Charanjit Ahuja

FIndIng way to FIght expendItuRe cleaRly
poveRty helps IndIan bag deFIned but candIdates
nobel pRIze have ways to hIde them
Research on alleviating Haryana, notorious for
global poverty gets India giving Aya Ram Gaya
born economist Abhijit Ram-type of politics to
Banerjee Nobel Prize, the country and now
reports Shveta Mishra it has learnt how to
hoodwink authorities
in manipulating poll
expenditures, reports
Sunny Sharma

dRones FoR aRms elephant and dRagon
smuggled to punjab dance togetheR, but he results of the latest showed that the “micro issues” have amid fightback from the Nationalist
Following the dropping FoR how long? assembly elections in apparently played a role in the party’s Congress Party (NCP). The Congress-NCP
of arms including a The sudden bonhomie Maharashtra and Hary- below-par performance in the state, alliance garnered 98 seats. The two
large number of AK 47 between Beijing and ana have come as a sur- where it built its campaign around parties had contested the 2014 elections
assault rifles through New Delhi in the wake T prise as everyone was “macro issues” like abrogation of Article separately, and, between them, won
drones in Punjab from of President Xi’s visit expecting Bharatiya Janata Party 370. Local factors also played a key role 83 seats.
Pakistan side, the to India has perplexed (BJP) to win both the states com - in Maharashtra, where the saffron party In Haryana, where the BJP won 47
fortably. The saffron party’s under-
did not get an overwhelming mandate as seats in the 90-member assembly in
Punjab Chief Minister some observers, while whelming show in the two-state it was hoping for. 2014, the party emerged the single larg-
has sought the help of others view it as a assembly elections, especially in The BJP, in alliance with the Shiv Sena, est force, but won 40 seats, six short of a
Union Home Minister positive development Haryana, has left it with issues to managed to win Maharashtra by bag- simple majority. The Congress, which
Amit Shah, reports in bilateral relations, ponder on even though it looked set ging 161 seats in a 288-member assembly surprised everyone, winning 31 seats,
Bharat Hiteshi reports Dr. Anil Singh to form governments there as well compared to 185 in 2014, when they had more than double of the 15 it did in
as in Maharashtra. contested separately. However, the oppo- 2014. And the Jannayak Janata Party
The poll outcome in Haryana sition seemed to have emerged stronger (JJP), a splinter group of the Indian

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